Theater Performance of “Border”
Sat 28 Jun 2014, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the theatre performance of “Border” by Les Rémouleurs Company. Les Rémouleurs, known for its creativity and stage machinery (puppet and Chinese shadow play) will cooperate with Thailand’s traditional puppet team (Ban Silpa Khang and Empty Space Chiang Mai) in this play.
Frontieres-les-Remouleurs
A traditional Thai nursery rhyme tells a story about one bird in search of a new nest. It will be performed with a long musical poem composed by two musicians: Francesco Pastacaldi, percussionist, and Ajan KB, flutist and multi-instrumentalist. Magic lanterns, phantasmagoria and other effects deeply scrutinize the wonders and woes of life.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
The Transitions Tour 2014: The Observatory MoE Talk Live in Saigon
Sat 28 Jun 2014, 7 pm
Zerostation
12 the 43rd alley (at the back of Nguyen Thi Dinh elementary school),
Lam Van Ben st, Dis 7. HCMC
Please be presented the first installment in a series of artist talk and performances of the usually ignored side of experimental arts that is music.
The event is also part of the TRANSITIONS 2104 TOUR featuring Singapore’s finest THE OBSERVATORY and Norwegian obscure gems MOE, followed by an intimate discussion about their arts.
Attention: There will be a much anticipated discussion and wild sharing on experimental music, the definition and around’s. Your attendance is greatly welcome and appreciated. For lovers of border-defying sounds and spectrumless emotions.
The Observatory and MoE also play in Hanoi on Fri 27 Jun with Hanoi’s own technopunk band XAI. For more information about the bands and listen to their sample music please see our previous post.
Tickets: 100,000 vnd upon entry. Free entrance for students with valid.
Music Night “Transitions”: The Observatory + Moe + Xai
Fri 27 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Rock City
27/52 To Ngoc Van, Tay Ho
THE ONION CELLAR proudly presents Singaporean astronauts THE OBSERVATORY Norwegian heavyweights MOE – live in Hanoi! Support comes from new local technopunk formidable force XAI.
In all seriousness this is quite possibly going to be the LOUDEST AND RAWEST show in Hanoi this year. Specially dedicated to people who were rocking with us and ZENI GEVA almost a year ago!
THE OBSERVATORY (Singapore – avant-rock)
The heart and soul of The Observatory is in its constant reinvention. With each release, the members have persisted in their experimental take on the pop songform.
In 12 years, The Observatory have gone from folk electronica to prog to avant rock, to approaching a more primal sound in recent years, evident in their fifth album, Catacombs; a study in delusion, insanity and obsession.
Genre preoccupations aside, The Observatory’s music is texturally complex, viscerally emotional and splintering in its bleakness. The attempt to cross wasted borders and find musical extremities that parallel polarities within human existence provokes and inspires in a deeply enigmatic way. Even at its coldest and most abstract, it is human to the core.
Based in Singapore, the independent avant rock band has released five albums and several special project releases. Their indie and improv leanings reflect an obsessive intent to stifle inhibition and undermine mechanical ways of commercial music-making.
MOE (Norway – experimental noise rock)
The Norwegian band MoE is known for mixing their minimalistic compositions with alternative and experimental approaches that fails to fit in the rock genre.
With countless collaborations exceeding the borders of rock and noise, MoE seeks the absolute presence in the execution of the music. Loud and violently, they molest their instruments and brings the listener closer to a healthy insanity.
Their recent activity includes touring in Mexico, Japan, Europe, seeking new collaborations with experimental scenes all over the planet to expand the music. MoE continues working in an unpredictable, noisy and dark landscape, with a broad musical hunger. Over the years MoE have collaborated with musicians and bands such as cellist Okkyung Lee, Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre, The Observatory and Arabrot ++++.
XAI (Vietnam – technopunk)
XAI are hot lava that spilled when a group of young artists emerging from Hanoi’s experimental music school, DomDom, came together with two members of Vietnam’s rawest fem punk band, GỗLim, and recruited UK front woman Lizo to ‘play the microphone’.
Loosely defining their music as technopunk, this frantically playful, live electronic band blend trumpet and keyboard melodies with crashing drums, scratchy vocals and analogue object play upon layers of solid baselines and originally crafted beats and textures. Visual art, fluid performance and unrestrained exploration of sound expression bond and drive XAI, whose name literally translates to ‘wrong’ – but spelt wrong.
The band, still very much in the embryonic stage of development are one to keep on the radar for fresh future music.
TICKETS (please read carefully)
VND 30K – 25 EARLY BIRD tickets at this price available from HẦM HÀNH from 16.00 – 25 May
VND 60K – once those 25 early bird tickets run out, tickets will be priced at 60k and also available from HẦM HÀNH until 23.30 – 25 June
VND 100K – at doors
Pop-rock Concert with Mélissa Laveaux in Hanoi and HCMC
Thu 26 Jun 2014, 8 pm
L’Espace, Hanoi
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
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Sat 28 Jun 2014, 8 pm
IDECAF, HCMC
You are invited to the pop-rock concert with Mélissa Laveaux.
Mélissa Laveaux is currently reinventing herself without evading the unique identity displayed in her first acclaimed album (Camphor And Copper, 2008). She grew up in Ottawa but was born to Haitian parents in Montréal. In the wake of her first album, she moved to France. A delicate stage of her life that set the background for the lyrics on ‘Dying Is A Wild Night’, her last album released in 2013.
Instead of gentle and acoustic folk, the young artist prefers more sophisticated energy of powerful pop. The lyrics are personal as always, her voice is still sensual and youthful, but the arrangements place emphasis on rhythm and electronic sounds.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
HCMC
Ticket price: 100 000 VND
Special price for students: 50 000 VND
Tickets are available at IDECAF.
Subscription Concert Vol 71
25 and 26 Jun 2014, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to Subscription Concert vol 71 with conductor Andrea Pestalozza and artists of Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra.
Program
Alexander Scriabin: Reverie for Orchestra E major op.24 (Vietnam Premiere)
Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Opera “Tristan und Isolde”
Johannes Brahms: Symphony no.2 D-major Op.73
Tickets
Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over ticketvn@gmail.com.
For free delivery Call: 0913489858, 0983067996.
Meeting with Pham Xuan Nguyen at L’Espace
Tue 24 Jun 2014, 9.30 am
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the meeting with literary critic Pham Xuan Nguyen on the occasion of publishing his literary criticism book entitled “Nhà văn như Thị Nở”.
Pham Xuan Nguyen is a critic / researcher at Vietnam Institute of Literature. He is also the Chairman of Hanoi Writers Association
“Nhà văn như Thị Nở” is the first literary criticism book by Pham Xuan Nguyen. The book depicts portraits of 51 writers of Vietnamese literature in past and present.
Speaker: Pham Xuan Nguyen
Free entrance.
Language: Vietnamese.
Lighting Workshop with Cinematographer Jamie Maxtone-Graham
21 and 22 Jun 2014, 9 am – 5 pm
DOCLAB
Goethe-Institut Hanoi
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
You are invited to join a two-day intensive lighting workshop for filmmakers and cinematographers.
When: Saturday and Sunday – June 21, 22 2014
Where: Goethe Institut Ha Noi 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc
Cost: 2,000,000 VND // (2 scholarships available for ½ price for former DocLab students)
Class: 8-12 people
Instructor: Jamie Maxtone-Graham worked for more than 20 years as a cinematographer in New York and Los Angeles on feature films, commercials, documentaries and episodic television. He has a long list of film credits internationally, in Vietnam and the region.
Workshop will be in English (with translation available for those who require it) and is open to all camera people – particularly for those who would like to make cinematic documentary films. Anyone with basic to intermediate cinematography skills who is looking to improve the look of their work will benefit from this workshop.
This two-day workshop will focus on real life shooting conditions and problem solving for filmmakers working on location. Focus will be on:
• Lighting for the interview
• Creative framing and lighting to tell your client’s story
• Making the best of a bad location
• Active and passive lighting techniques
Day 1
Active lighting – how to work with daylight (HMI and LED) and tungsten lights, lighting the interview, classic three point lighting techniques.
Participants will work in small groups and after a short morning presentation and demonstration, they will work to create their own set ups with lights, diffusion and cameras.
Day 2
Passive lighting – lighting without lights, how to make a boring room look better than it is, available light and its qualities, mixed active/passive lighting, filming indoors or outdoors – how to make people look good in any condition.
Participants will again work in small teams and in a variety of practical locations designed to challenge their newly acquired skills.
This workshop will be hands-on, intensive and full of useful and practical information. Come prepared to work and to learn.
For more information, please contact: hanoidoclab@gmail.com
To register for the workshop, please fill in the Application Form in DOCLAB’s website and send it back to us.
Hanoi Doclab
Hanoidoclab.org
56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi
37342252/ext. 39
The West African Concert to Celebrate the World Music Night
Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8 – 10 pm
2th floor, Pullman Hanoi Hotel
40 Cat Linh Str, Hanoi
Come to a special concert to celebrate The World Music Night 21 Jun with Musbaba Traore from Mali. The concert is a harmonious fusion of The West African hot vibes with the melodic Vietnamese instrument.
Musbaba is a Malian musician, composer and singer. His style could be defined as afro-pop-bambana, melting traditional Malian sounds with world music trends. He plays all sort of percussion instruments and one traditional string instrument called n’goni.
Musbaba is currently based in Hanoi (Vietnam) and has been working on the project Mali-Vietnam fusion. He integrated a traditional Vietnamese instrument (Dan Tranh) in his musical compositions, the result being a harmonious fusion of the West African hot vibes with the melodic Asian sounds. African dance performances are also part of the shows, creating a synergy between the artists and their audience.
Free entry.
Percussive Fingerstyle Concert
Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8 pm
Heritage Space
Dolphin Plaza, 17 Tran Binh, My Dinh, Ha Noi
You are invited to the Percussive Fingerstyle Concert with strong, funky and youthful melodies, which reveal the spirit and ambition of youth.
The concert on second Saturday night of every month with different themes/styles will bring different feelings and satisfy multiple tastes of music.
Ticket price: 80 000 VND (including 1 free drink, optional)
The Book Talk in June
Fri 20 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm
Manzi Art Space
14 Phan Huy Ich, Hanoi
Continuing our monthly literature series called ‘The Book Talk’, in collaboration with Nha Nam, the talk this month will be a discussion on the role of the Vietnamese Writers’ Association in the local scene.
Free entry.
Communications partners: Hanoi Grapevine and OfOtherThings
The Songs of Bob Dylan Tribute Night
Fri 20 Jun 2014, 7.30 pm
Hanoi Social Club
6 Hoi Vu Str, Hanoi
The aaaanswer my friend, is blowing in … oh sorry about that.
Bob Dylan. America’s answer to Trinh Cong Son? Or an oversimplistic comparison? Who knows. What we do know is that we have a bunch of musicians ready to open the songbooks of this great folk singer (Bob Dylan, not Trinh Cong Son) and play some of his great works.
We’ve got strumming guitars, harmonicas, drums and scratchy voices supplied by pro-performers and loving amateurs. Playing Bob Dylan’s most popular and also lesser known songs. It will be ENTERTAINING!
Come and sway, feel all reminiscent, and enjoy folk music in Hanoi’s number one intimate acoustic venue.
Tickets: 50,000 VND @ the door.
Vietnamese Photographer at Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year in London
Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year is an annual competition and exhibition showcasing the very best in international environmental photography.
Filled with beautifully resonant images that explore issues such as innovation, sustainable development, biodiversity, poverty, climate change, human rights, culture and population growth, the exhibition opens 23 June at the Royal Geographical Society, London and continues until 04 July.
Do Tuyet Trinh‘s selected photograph Fishing net making in Mekong Delta, Vietnam depicts women from the fishing community of the Mekong Delta, and highlights the problems created by climate change and the inconsistency of the annual flood.
Do Tuyet Trinh, born in Hanoi, is a banker by profession and a photographer by passion. Travel is her first and foremost priority in her free time and she loves taking pictures along the way. Having been to five continents, she was fortunate to have chance witnessing and experiencing many facets of lives. She won a number of international photo contests, including “The Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2014” (UK) and “The People Planet International Photo Competition 2013” (Australia).
Contemporary Magic Performance “Notte” at L’Espace
Sat 21 Jun 2014, 8 pm
Youth Theatre
11 Ngo Thi Nham, Hanoi
You are invited to the contemporary magic show “Notte” by Compagnie 14:20.
Immersing the audience in total darkness, Notte blurs the signal and hides body in the dark for a better reveal of calligraphy.
On stage are a man and a woman: a story about 2 different worlds that attract and repulse each other, forever searching for balance. This hypnotic ballet is complemented by bright balls, leaving behind trails of light as meteors. The magic does the rest and these balls turn into the constellations, swirling galaxies, in a unstable space…
Tickets:
Ticket price: 120 000/100 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000/50 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
La Fête de la Musique 2014 at Metropole Hanoi
Sat 21 Jun 2014, 5 – 8 pm
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
15 Ngo Quyen Str, Hanoi
On June 21st, entrance is free and buying drinks when joining the Fetê is optional. The Fetê is on at Hotel’s poolside from 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm. Brazilian Happy Hour (Time to enjoy Champagne Cachaça with special discount) runs throughout the Fetê.
This year, Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi will welcome the season of sun with a very special music festival guaranteed to evoke the sounds of summer. We offer a Brazillian-infused La Fête de la Musique to honour the country which hosted World Cup 2014 and bring the exciting atmosphere of world’s most thrilling soccer event to Hanoi.
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has been a French monument in Hanoi since the turn of the last century, and will host this year host an evening featuring a special Brazilian-themed party and a fashion show introducing new summer collections from Double Dose and Chula at the hotel’s poolside. In addition, our stylish French DJ GiMix will make transform Bamboo Bar into the perfect destination for a soulful night of chilled out grooves. Influenced by many electronic musical movements, such as Electro Swing and Balkan Beat, GiMix promises to take you on a melodic tour of musical genres.
La Fetê de la Musique is the popular street music festival which was launched in France back in 1982 to see in the Summer Solstice and ever since, it kept the role as the celebration of all genres and tribute to the libertarian spirit of French-style street fêtes. This day of music allows the fullest expression of all musical styles in a carnival atmosphere, inspiring young and not so young people from all social backgrounds to embrace music at this very special time of year. As a French brand of international hotels, Sofitel naturally plays an active role in this unifying cultural event.
Come and join us for an unforgettable evening!
Free entry.